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Hitler and the Nazi party are telling the world "Jews are a diseased race."
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Lola was born
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A German officer is killed in Paris by a by a Jew. Sets off a backlash as the Night of Broken Glass.
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Czortkow starts having rolling blackouts. All the streetlights are turned off, and Jewstape tape black paper over their windows
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Six million Jews died during WWII, and 1 1/2 million were Jewish children.
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Hitler invades Poland
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Lola is free to walk around the market place with her mother
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Russians take over the town
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Hitler comes up with a plan to execute all the Jews. The Final Solution.
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Lola is six and a half and nd is going to nursery school. There are about a dozen kids.
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The Germans arived in town marching with guns and other things.
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The Germans made a law that anyone providing shelter to Jews, giving them food, or even selling them food, is to be killed.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor bringing America in the war.
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The Jews are confined in the ghetto unless it they of papers.
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Lola's dad dies at home
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The "fist action happens." When the Germans come they hide inside their walls.
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It's Purim a Jewish holiday. Lola's mom and 2 others are killed by a German officer
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A few months after Lola's mom died. BAbica tells Lola she will be sneaking out. Then a girl Tekla picks her up.
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Tekla's son-in-law works in the fields even though it is still windy and cold. Lola is always scared of him.
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There was the final "action" and the ghetto was "liquidated."
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A couple of months after Lola got to the house, a man and a woman came to the room where Lola was. The dog never barks. Lola pretends to be a mute. The son-in-law says that the next day he is taking Lola to the Gestapo. So Tekla takes Lola to Anna.
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Just after the new year of 1944, Anna tells Lola and the others that the Germans lost and are retreating
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Lola and the others hear fighting nearby. They can hear tanks rumbling and the crack of gun fire.
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Anna comes and tells them they have been "liberated" by the Russians. Before sunrise Lola and the others crawl out of the hole they were in for 9 months.
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The Russians control Gestapo now, which was finally liberated.
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Germans come back to Czortkow trying to reclaim their land and Lola has to leave.
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Lola is 9 1/2 years old and was found passed out. A man who knew her father brought her to a stranger's house. Then a Russian soldier takes her
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Lola has to beg for food and a Russian soldier offers her to take her to an orphanage in Keiv.
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The Russian soldier drops off Lola in Gritsev because he has to go. Then a man named Sergei offers to take Lola
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Germans disappear from Czortkow
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American and British soldiers landed on beaches of Normandy, France, and began to push the Germans westward while the Russians are pushing eastward.
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Lola turns 10 years old in Sergei's house and is depressed. Sergei is trying to find Lola's family.
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SErgei gets contact with Lola's uncle. He goes to look for Lola in Keiv not relising she's not in the orphanage. When he goes he doesn't go with papers and is placed in jail where he got sick
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrendered. Known as Victory in Europe Day.
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Poles and Ukrainians are still killing Jews even though the war is over
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America drops two atomic bombs in Japan.
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Japan surrenders
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Lola is going on a train with Romec to go to Krakow to go live with her Uncle George and is emotionless when she meets him.
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Lola's Uncle Isaac shows up at Uncle George's house in Krakow. However, they don't stay for long and end up leaving.
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Lola and others are moving from country to country trying to escape persecution of Jews.
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Lola finds herself in Eschwege, Germany in a displaced camp run by the United Nations. Lives there for a year and tries to go to Israel.
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Lola finally gets clearance to travel to America. Uncle George and his family received clearance a year before but waited for Lola.
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Lola starts high school but drops out to work full-time.
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Lola graduates at 16 with her comptometer operator certificate. She starts working at Saks 34th Street during the day and goes to school at night but, again drops out.
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Lola goes to Brighton beach where she finds her husband. He is 11 years older than her and from Poland.
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Lola and Walter get married. Lola goes back to school and gets her diploma.
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Lola is 21 and worked until the birth of her first child, Deborah Renee. She was named after her mother Dworja and after Walter's mother Rachel. They live in a one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn.
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Lola's second child is born, Michel Jay. He is named after WAlter's father and Lola's. Walter is a fashion designer. They move to the suburbs.
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Lola is 28 years old, has been living in Amercia fo 13 years. She opens the New York Post and sees the German officer who killed her mom and got life in prison
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Lola gives birth to her third child, Jeffrey Scott. He is named after Lola's paternal grandfather and her oldest uncle.
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50 years of silence is broken when Jane Marks asks Lola for an interview for a book. Jane unlocks her emotions
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Jane Marks's book has been published.
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Anna Aksenczuk, the non-jew who hid Lola in the hole was officially recognized.
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Lola gets a letter from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.
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Lola's dress travels to lots of places. Lola travels with Sara and Lola talks about WWII